I'm taking some time off from shooting my automatics. Today I brought my 617 to the range and a bunch of ammo to test.

I had Federal Auto Match (275 round box), Blazers, CCI Mini Mag 40 grain, MM 36 grain, Federal Gold Metal Ultra Match , Champions, and Wolf MT.

Everything shot great and I had no failures of any kind. Groups were fantastic.

This 617 has had a lot of work done to it. I decided to smooth the action just a bit more using my just my medium grade stone. I use to get 1 - 2 failures to fire out of the Auto Mags, Blazer would give me 1 out of 100 rounds and Mini Mags would be 2 out of every 100 rounds.

This bothered me so I worked on the gun just a little bit more. Trigger pull is now just under 7 lbs double action. I used Jerry Miculeck's video to do the action work. The main spring is still stock and screwed in all the way. I changed the rebound spring to an 11 pound Wilson and pput an Apex Tactical hammer in the gun.

I've given up shooting Steel Challenge Matches for the rest of the summer, too hot at last match and I got Heat Stroke. ( I'm old and out of shape with diabetes and high blood pressure so the heat and sun got to me).

It's nice to know I can shoot any ammo that's in my closed and it will all go bang on the first try with this gun.